Dry hopping and hop residual in beer

Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:35 pm

I have been attempting to perfect a low gravity IPA and have run into difficulty with hop flakes in my finished product. My process involves cold crashing for 24-36h after dry hopping, then transferring to a keg and serving. Throughout the entire life of the keg there are flakes of hops in each pint, any thoughts on how to remove these?
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Re: Dry hopping and hop residual in beer

Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:44 pm

you could try this out, I've never used one, but looks like it would work.

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Re: Dry hopping and hop residual in beer

Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:09 am

I use this to filter during the transfer and no need to crash when using it

http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/c ... using.html

with a 5 micron reusable filter

http://www.bacchus-barleycorn.com/catal ... -3980.html

you can reuse them forever just back flush and store in a canister with cheap
Vodka to keep the nastys out 8)

go slow only push with about 3LBs of pressure from he CO2 tank
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Re: Dry hopping and hop residual in beer

Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:56 am

I just kegged a double IPA with 9 oz of dry hops in the primary fermenter. I cold crashed for 48 hrs and then carefully racked to a keg being sure to minimize any trub/hop pickup. Put the keg in my cooler for about 6 days with gas, and after my second pour the beer was almost fully clear (minus any hop haze which won't go away for awhile).
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